Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The next soap

So, planning my next soaps. Even though my mass testing of
various recipes has ended, I really like 1lb batches. I get 4-5 bars
out of each pound. I'll pick just of few of the many recipes I have
made and continue to play. I'm still playing around with fragrances,
molds, coloring. I've also purchased some sodium lactate, which is a
humectant as well as being know to harden up soaps. I do like harder
bars of soap, so maybe using sodium lactate will harden up some of the
softer recipes. I continue to purchase fragrance oils and essential
oils. I have more than I know what to do with. It's too bad I can't
smell them before purchasing. I also purchased a fondant imprint mat.
Usually it's used to impress a pattern onto cake fondant, but wouldn't
it produce a nice imprint onto soap. Wilton Graceful Vines fondant imprint mat
Hopefully. I've made my Half and Half soap. I purchased some powdered
goat's milk and buttermilk. I haven't tried the powdered versions so
that'll be new. I also have some Micro Fine Silk Powder to add
silkiness and slip, and Kaolin clay which also adds slip and is supposed
to be good for oily skin.

I've purchased more MP soap. I want to make more glow-in-the-dark soaps among other designs.

I think I will try to make those room fresheners, the ones with the
sticks in a bottle with fragrance oil in the bottle. I just need a
place to put the bottles where the cats can't knock them over. I am
also waiting on an order of some absorbent beads that I can impregnate
with fragrance and put into sachets.

I just got some Potassium Hydroxide so maybe this weekend I'll try making some liquid soap.